Lotusphere Comes to You, Manila

April 20 2006

Talk about a Thrilla-in-Manila....
About 360 people turned out for Lotusphere Comes to You in the Philippines today.  A first class event, and Iris Hester Tan, John Victoria, and the rest of the team did a most excellent job of putting it together.

While the content was similar to the other 170 LCTY events, the opening session in Manila had an impressive kickoff.  Filipino rock band Rivermaya opened with a song called "Posible" (from their "greatest hits" album), a tribute to the Filipino knowledge worker.  IBM Philipines Joaquin Quintos then welcomed the crowd before handing it over to me for the keynote.  IBM is growing its presence in the Philippines, more than doubling in size by 2008.  Pretty cool stuff.

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So now I'm up way too late and LCTY here in Singapore starts early in the morning.  The streets will be filled with Lotus yellow -- more on that tomorrow.

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  1. 1  Karl Merckel  | 4/20/2006 2:23:25 PM

    Next time you are at a phillipino party you should get them to treat you to some baloot..... :)

  1. 2  Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk | 4/20/2006 4:26:39 PM

    Dammit, that's what we were missing from the London gig.

  1. 3  Duffbert http://www.twduff.com | 4/20/2006 4:38:11 PM

    While I'm happy I got a pair of boxing gloves from the Portland Oregon LCTY, I have to think our version of the event was lacking somewhat in production values... :)

  1. 4  Bruce Elgort http://www.bruceelgort.com | 4/20/2006 6:12:26 PM

    @Duffbert,

    You mean "I begged and begged the LCTY hostess....."

    :-)

  1. 5  Duffbert http://www.twduff.com | 4/20/2006 6:14:06 PM

    I didn't *beg* anyone... I just mentioned that I thought the gloves were a better item to win than the iPod, and it went from there. :-)

  1. 6  Glenn http://www.softwebconsult.com | 4/20/2006 10:01:07 PM

    hav'nt you tried the Baloot. Hope you'll be guest speaker in the next BP Summer Camp in Manila

  1. 7  Ed Brill www.edbrill.com | 4/20/2006 10:24:42 PM

    @1 / @6 - ewwww. :-)

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  1. 8  Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk | 4/21/2006 4:33:13 AM

    @7 - pass me that bucket, I think I'm gonna...

  1. 9  Glenn http://www.softwebconsult.com | 4/24/2006 12:06:51 AM

    @7 - nice link, now you know the content of the balut, wont you try it? :)

  1. 10  Tom Nichols  | 4/25/2006 11:15:49 AM

    Wow, I don't know if I could eat that. I'll eat about anything, but, day-um! That thing's looking back at me!